Dental Secrets

Using a question-and-answer format, this book covers all the latest clinical and public health aspects of dentistry as well as how computers and the Internet can manage a dental practice and quickly provide information to dental practitioners. The content of all chapters has been update and revised. New questions, answers, and illustrations reflect current additions to dental materials, surgical tehcniques, modalities of diagnosis and infection.

Pagina 134They create microporosity in the enamel prism layer and remove the surface
smear layer of dentin. 38. What is the composition of the smear layer? The smear layer is a film of microcrystalline debris that remains on dentin after it is cut with ...

Pagina 135When dentin is etched, the smear layer is removed. This results in removal of the
tissue plugs in dentin tubules with the potential for fluid flow and subsequent
neurostimulation of the pulp. 46. How may tubular flow stimulation be minimized?